(n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
(n.) A crowd; a throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(2) It was shown that delta F508 frequency of CF-patients was 59.2%, the frequencies of S5491, G551D and K533X were about 1%.
(3) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
(4) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(5) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(6) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
(9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(10) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(11) There was no important difference in the frequency of HLA-A,B,C, and DR antigens between patients and controls.
(12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(14) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
(15) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(16) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(17) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(18) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(19) Each test was examined by the frequency with which it was ordered, the frequency with which it was abnormal, and the frequency with which the abnormal result affected preoperative care.
(20) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
Warble
Definition:
(n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
(n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
(n.) See Wormil.
(v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
(v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
(v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
(v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
(v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
(v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
(n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two boys with ophthalmomyiasis caused by the first instar larva of the reindeer warble fly Hypoderma tarandi are reported.
(2) Cattle exposed to their third consecutive warble (Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis) infestation had significantly reduced apparent and accumulative grub populations and produced significantly fewer grubs than animals exposed to their first infestation.
(3) A bi-layered warble capsule surrounded the cavity as a thin layer and a thick diffuse outer layer.
(4) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(5) Thirty-four normal-hearing 4-year-old children were tested with conventional steady-state pure tones and with warbled tones to compare efficiency of the stimuli.
(6) Warble tone thresholds were markedly better than unmodulated thresholds at 14 and 16 kHz.
(7) The song ended on an emotional warble, then Nicolas rummaged in a drawer and handed me a small circle of cloth.
(8) At the end of each month, a satisfaction questionnaire was completed and free field assessment, consisting of speech in noise discrimination measurement and warble tone threshold determinations, was performed.
(9) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(10) The growing warble expanded into the subcutaneous tissue of the inguinal area and stretched the hide caudally.
(11) Speech band comfort levels were found to be significantly higher than equal-duration noise band or warble tone comfort levels.
(12) The effect of the last developmental phase of the warble fly (Hypoderma bovis de Greer) larvas was studied as exerted on some health indices of milk in 20 experimental (treated) and 18 control (untreated) first-calvers of the Pinzgau breed at two localities of an area affected by bovine hypodermosis in the period from May to June, 1975.
(13) "My sister lives in Italy and here local supermarket has a very inviting offer on: do a big shop there on the day of an Italy match, and if Italy win the game you will be given a coupon for the amount that you spent, entitling you to free goods of the same value next time you come," warbles Peter Jenkins.
(14) It was concluded that convincing evidence to persuade the audiologist to select warbled over conventional steady-state pure tones for testing children was lacking.
(15) Wild-caught, tethered females of the reindeer warble fly, Hypoderma tarandi (L.) (= Oedemagena tarandi (L.)), (Diptera, Oestridae) were stimulated to oviposit on hairs of a reindeer hide.
(16) No differences in warble production were found in hosts of either sex.
(17) The warble-tone and speech detection thresholds aided with the implant devices of the first two patients were comparable with those found in western cases.
(18) Thresholds were ranked from most to least sensitive as follows: warble-tone, pure-tone, and narrow-band noise.
(19) In frequency regions where the masked audiogram was relatively flat, p-t and warble-tone (w-t) HTLs were equivalent.
(20) Stimulus configurations included the constant-frequency vibrations used by other laboratories as well as frequency-modulated (warbled) stimulus patterns.